I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELDI like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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